Tilbury dockworkers plan strike Monday

Labor

Friday, May 04, 2012

Dockworkers at the Port of Tilbury in England are set to strike May 7 over a change in their contract that calls on them to work when ships are ready for unloading, not in set shift patterns. Forty-five employees are involved in the planned action, all of them at the Enterprise Distribution Centre in Essex and members of the union Unite. The union said it is the first strike by dockworkers at Tilbury since 1989. The workers will picket outside the main ...

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